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In the article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr analyzes the internet’s affect on our lives and the way we read and think today. He goes into great detail explaining how our process of thought is shaped, and cites many different sources within the article. He includes a lot captivating information to help the reader become more interested in the article, and want to continue reading. He also uses title of the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and the quote from the movie “A Space Odyssey” to draw the reader into the article and make them want to find out what the answer is.
Technologically Carr uses a lot of information and stories from other writers to back up his article and provide other point of views to the topic. He starts many of his thoughts or paragraphs with a quote or citation from another piece of work to get his idea rolling. He describes many situations comparing the way we interacted and thought before and after the arrival of the internet, which entices the reader and makes them become very involved in the topic.
It is obvious that Nicholas Carr did a lot of research for this article, to include the amount of information which he did. While the topics of the papers we had to do this semester were nothing like the internet’s effect on our brain, it is still safe to say that Carr’s included a lot more information and different materials than we would have to. He also goes into greater detail to entice the reader and make them interested in the topic.